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Nancy Pelosi: 'Elections Shouldn't Matter as Much as They Do'
Nancy Pelosi: 'Elections Shouldn't Matter as Much as They Do' - Yahoo! News
Obama's "I Won" and Pelosi "we wrote the bill, we won"-- but now elections should not matter as much?
What Pelosi meant, obviously, that elections should not matter as much as they do when the left is on the losing side. When elections do matter, then the winning side actually thinks that it has a mandate to do things that the losing side might not want to happen.
A case in point, back when the left was victorious in the 2008 election, President Barack Obama was meeting with congressional leaders. He chided Republicans for objecting to his stimulus package, telling them, "I won." He meant, of course, the American people had given him a mandate to essentially take $900 billion and, for all the effect that it had on the economy, burn it in a big bon fire.
Nancy Pelosi: 'Elections Shouldn't Matter as Much as They Do' - Yahoo! News
Obama's "I Won" and Pelosi "we wrote the bill, we won"-- but now elections should not matter as much?